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		<title>Driving Force Analysis</title>
		<link>http://miketeo.net/wp/index.php/2009/06/05/driving-force-analysis.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>miketeo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Driving Forces refer to the broad cluster of events, state of affairs, and/or trends that impact the firm&#8217;s future. These forces are significant as they define and drive events and trends in certain directions, and are typically quite broad in scope, long-term in nature, and associated with some degree of uncertainty as to their evolution. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Taboos With Venture Capitalists</title>
		<link>http://miketeo.net/wp/index.php/2009/02/15/ten-taboos-with-venture-capitalists.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 05:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>miketeo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the long-standing relationship with the VC, there are ten things an entrepreneur probably should not do if he/she does not want the VC to lose faith in him/her. Even if you think the following can be treated lightly as jokes, you will be surprised at how VC can get very touchy on these issues.
1. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Types of Service Pricing Strategies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>miketeo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pricing Strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Service Marketing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An organization&#8217;s objectives determine the desired results of pricing policies. Strategies are the means by which these objectives are achieved. Before discussing pricing strategies, it is useful to lay the ground work for analyzing the underlying factors that influence price decisions. Four important bases for price determination can be identified:

What it costs to produce a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Service Buying Process</title>
		<link>http://miketeo.net/wp/index.php/2008/03/30/service-buying-process.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>miketeo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Notes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Service Buying Process]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Organizations should develop a thorough understanding of a number of aspects of their customers&#8217; buying processes, in particular:

Who is involved in making the purchase decision?
How long does the process of making a decision take?
What is the set of competing services from which consumers make their choice?
What is the relative importance attached by decision makers to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Distinguishing Characteristics of Services</title>
		<link>http://miketeo.net/wp/index.php/2008/03/25/distinguishing-characteristics-of-services.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>miketeo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Intangible Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Service Marketing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Services have a number of distinctive characteristics which differentiate them from goods and have implications on the manner in which these services are marketed.

Intangibility
A pure service cannot be assessed using any of the physical senses and cannot be directly examined before it is purchased. A prospective purchaser of most goods is able to examine the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Risk Factors Faced by Consumers During Service Purchase</title>
		<link>http://miketeo.net/wp/index.php/2008/03/23/factors-influencing-the-level-of-risk-faced-by-consumers-during-service-purchase.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>miketeo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Buying Decisions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Risk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Service Marketing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Consumers usually experience pre-purchase uncertainty during purchase of most products. However, in the case of intangible service purchase, the amount of perceived risk would be expected to be higher as compared to product purchase. Intangibility often leads to a consumer&#8217;s evaluation of a service based on tangible evidence and price rather than the core service [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nokia S60 Platform SDK</title>
		<link>http://miketeo.net/wp/index.php/2008/01/28/nokia-s60-platform-sdk.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>miketeo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mobile Devices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Notes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carbide C++]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nokia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Symbian SDK]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is for my personal notes as it takes a while to search through that labyrinth of information on the Nokia web site. The Nokia Symbian SDKs are at this URL.


Bookmark This Rattle...

























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		<title>Principles of Disruptive Technologies</title>
		<link>http://miketeo.net/wp/index.php/2008/01/01/principles-of-disruptive-technologies.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 19:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>miketeo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[business management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This blog extracts the important forces behind disruptive technologies which could or have caused large companies to fall in their market leadership. All information are extracted from &#34;The Innovator&#8217;s Dilemma&#34; by Clayton Christensen (ISBN:0-06-662069-4).

Principle #1: Companies Depend on Customers and Investors for Resources
The theory of resouce dependence states that while the managers may think they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CRM-Focus Marketing</title>
		<link>http://miketeo.net/wp/index.php/2007/12/27/crm-focus-marketing.html</link>
		<comments>http://miketeo.net/wp/index.php/2007/12/27/crm-focus-marketing.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 17:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>miketeo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Notes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[customer relationship]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[CRM-focus marketing: 1) sees marketing as an organizational competence rather than a department; 2) focuses on communication execution as marketing expense is now a huge percentage of operational costs; 3) establishes insight-based interaction with consumers with marketing being integrated more closely with operations and managing data and processes that enable communications.

Definitions of CRM
CRM is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Data-Mining in Marketing</title>
		<link>http://miketeo.net/wp/index.php/2007/12/26/using-data-mining-in-marketing.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 12:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>miketeo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[data mining]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most companies hold enormous  amount of data about their businesses, but they don&#8217;t have a full understanding of what is happening in detail. Data mining &#34;digs&#34; into these data to &#34;mine&#34; small amounts of information by establishing patterns and studying the trends. Small insights from these analysis can yield big long-term gains, particularly when [...]]]></description>
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